I've got the u2 now for a week or 2. And I love it. But the "if it breaks garanty" is off course very nice, but not very usefull when u are in the field.
I've been winter camping/hiking for these last two weeks, with the U2, and I still had a CMG light and a E2d (with a KL1, but the strike bezel replaced the normal bezel) as backup. I'm out in Europe, in the worst case I'm 2 days walking away from the nearest house/town. but without light it is hard to find anything at all.
I noted one thing about the U2 when working it in subzero (Celcius) temperatures: when it is really cold, it is harder to turn the ring. It first sticks like it is frozen but then slides. but it needs more force to turn it. Could this be the polymer shrinking harder then the Aluminium?
Or perhaps the rubber being harder or even the silicon getting frozen?
But for camping, hiking, hunting and reading books in a dark shelter, it is a near perfect light.
My only worry is that SF comes up with even a more perfect light. Just like I have now a A2 (red-led)obsolete (can a SF ever be obsolete? those two weeks it was used by my companion and he is very enthousiastic about it. He just wont pay $185 for a light.)
I'm now at the office and the U2 hangs in my front pocket. i don't notice it there. When I'm not in the office I tend to wear 5.11's, so there is place enough. But I have to admit, I've been looking for a belt-pocket (not a hip bag or something alike, just a pocket/sheath for on my belt) to store al my stuff.
It seems to be growing and giving birth: it started with a wallet and some key's. along came a phone, then a sturdy knife, a 6P (which changed in a A2, E2d and now in a U2) and there seems to be coming a leatherman tool this Xmas.
So if someone has any ideas about this....?
